Gibson Guitars or Russki Balalaikas . . . . What's It Going To Be America?

Another hallmark trait of fascism -- purging the government ranks of suspected, disloyal foot soldiers:

House Democrats on Thursday accused Trump-appointed officials in the State Department and at the White House of working with outside conservative activists to conduct a “cleaning” of career staff whom, according to emails handed over to Dems by a whistleblower, they deemed insufficiently loyal to the President’s agenda.

Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) — the top Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees, respectively — made the claims in a letter dated Thursday to White House chief of staff John Kelly and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan. In the letter, Cummings and Engel requested documents and interviews related to the reassignment of State Department career staff and civil servants.

Politico has also obtained the emails the Democrats referenced in their letter.

In one email, David Wurmser, formerly a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, sent former House Speaker Newt Gingrich a March 2017 article in the Conservative Review targeting Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, a career State staffer and expert in Iran policy.

“Newt: I think a cleaning is in order here,”  Wurmser wrote, according to the Democrats’ letter. “I hear Tillerson actually been reasonably good on stuff like this and cleaning house, but there are so many that it boggles the mind…”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/state-department-white-house-targeting-career-staff-dem-letter

The Gadfly cannot decide what's more revolting about this story - the fact that they are trying to implement a Stalin-like ideological cleansing of career State Department employees, based solely on insufficient loyalty to dear leader, or that it has resurrected the ill-begotten names of geezer Republican scumbags Newt "Serial Adulterer" Gingrich (R), and Dick "Darth" Cheney.

The Gadfly hopes that he lives for at least another 25 years or so, because if The Gadfly does reach that plateau, and of course - providing we haven't been annexed by Russia and turned in to just another one of their satellite states by that time - The Gadfly will spend as much time as is necessary out of his final years on this planet, traveling around the country, and pissing on every last one of these bastard's graves.

Is that harsh?  Yes - yes it is.  But it's not bitter!  No, no,no - it is not.  It's joyful harshness.



----TFG